Just traveling
I'm not doing much today except packing up and spending long
hours flying to Canada.. with some luck I might catch up on
some
strace
work during the flight, but I'm not betting on that. Those
seats are just too cramped to be able to use a laptop.
Perhaps
catching up on sleep is a better plan, I could sure use
it.

Okay, the rest is actually yesterdays entry but I
didn't
submit it then..

Not my day..
This day just started out wrong.. it started by
discovering that the people from
the Linux Expo in Montreal apparently managed to mess up my
hotel
reservation and only booked me for half the week. At least
that's
what it says on the flight plan I received yesterday.. I
fired an email
off to them so lets hope it gets sorted out quickly. Then
someone
told me about the OpenNMS project which
seems to be doing the
exact same thing as the Little Brother project I have been
working
on for Cistron. Their
project
looks interesting, but there doesn't seem to be any code or
detailed
info beyond some marketing-speak. I think I'll just pretend
I don't
know about them and finish Little Brother :). I should
probably put
the code for that online somewhere before someone will
accuse me
of doing the same thing..

Debian on the move
Interesting stuff is happening on the Debian-frontend it
seems. IBM
and Alcove released a press release which mentioned that
Debian
is now the market leader with 27%. It doesn't list which
market or
where that figure comes from though, and the only similar
number I
can find is the result from a slashdot poll. Weird things
are happening
when the blue giant needs to rely on the reliable results of
a slashdot
poll..

I'm really happy with the current porting efforts as
well, it seems
that our mips port is progressing nicely (thanks to Florian
Lohoff
and Guido Guenther), so hopefully I'll get my new indy to do
something
useful soon. I also heard that the PuffinGroup (not part of
LinuxCare decided to
make
Debian their official PARISC port. Expect some cool things
coming from there! And finally tausq mentioned he build dpkg
for ia64. Now if
I could only get my hands on an ia64 to actually see
that..